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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 2000
Page
3
President Clinton signed a $58 billion transportation bill establishing a nationwide 0.08 blood alcohol content limit for drunken driving by 2004. States failing to adopt the standard face loss of federal highway funds, a move aimed at reducing alcohol related crashes and deaths.
The plan to require a federal 0.08 percent limit gains support from officials including Rose Garden attendees and MADD leaders. Opponents warn it harms social drinkers while repeat offenders remain a larger issue. States vary on limits and drunken driving definitions, with broader transportation bills prompting large funding and project allocations.
In Kansas City and across the nation, George W. Bush and Al Gore pressed their campaigns to mobilize supporters two weeks before the vote. Bush accused Gore of blocking reform while Gore highlighted prosperity and aimed to rally unions and Black voters with policy contrasts on education and the environment.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak works to assemble a coalition including right wing hard liners to prevent early elections as violence intensifies. clashes persist in Hebron and Gaza with 36 Palestinians wounded, two youths die in Nablus, bringing the toll to 123. Shifting clashes follow Sharon’s Sept. 28 Jerusalem shrine visit.
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